Why is mathematics so complicated? It’s a question many students will ask while grappling with a particularly complex calculus problem — and their teachers will probably echo while setting or marking ...

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I would lump mathematics in a similar category to language, art, music, etc. – inventions of the human mind that are highly relevant and meaningful to our species, but have no reality otherwise. It is ...

Cambridge University Press has signed a “joyful journey” through the world of abstract mathematics by popular science author Eugenia Cheng. Katie Leach, senior editor in mathematical sciences, bought ...

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One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a decades-old dream when they unveiled a proof of ...

By Winifred KOTINFor many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the ...

Ian Stewart is a prolific writer of books about mathematics. His latest volume attempts to put mathematical thinking at the centre of biology. The Mathematics of Life is framed around five revolutions ...